Yes, Google Reader will be dead soon, Google Blog: A second spring of cleaning.
I just read a few blogs which talked about the alternatives. Then just a few days ago, one of my friend told me there are inoreader and CommaFeed. And found this article, jasonwryan.com: Replacing Google Reader.
CommaFeed is an opensource solution(Note: it’s in maintenance when I started to write this blog), source code is on github.
Steps
Signup on OpenShift
Go to OpenShift, signup
Add JBoss 6.0 application
Go to OpenShift: Get Started, then click “WEB”, a bit down, clike “Open the Console and Create an Application”, in “Mangement Console” page, click “Create Application”, find “JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.0”, and install it, you need to set the “Public URL”, for example: http://mygooglereader-enjoylife.rhcloud.com , click “Create Application”.
You can add a public ssh key in next page.
(Note: I am not sure how much I will pay for that service based on “JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.0 is based on a premium cartridge. It costs an additional $0.03 per gear hour after the first 3 gears.”)
Install mysql 5.1
Back to OpenShift: Get Started, click “COMMAND LINE”, follow the steps in “Install the client tools on:”, for me, it’s “Mac OS X”. Then “Setup your enviroment”, command is “rhc setup”, there it will help you to create a ssh key and set up it. “rhc add-cartridge mysql-5.1 –app mygooglereader” will help you install mysql into the application. Please remember to keep the secret information like root username, password and etc.
Deploy CommaFeed to OpenShift
In OpenShift: My Applications/Mygooglereader, found the url of your git repo:
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ssh://76758382475ef809976543@mygooglereader-enjoylife.rhcloud.com/~/git/feeds.git/ |
You need to make a local clone of CommaFeed and merge it with your openshift application, then push it:
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git clone https://github.com/Athou/commafeed.git cd commafeed # add OpenShift as a repo git remote add openshift -f ssh://76758382475ef809976543@mygooglereader-enjoylife.rhcloud.com/~/git/feeds.git/ git merge openshift/master -s recursive -X ours git push openshift master |
If you find sth like following, then it works fine:
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remote: [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ remote: [INFO] BUILD SUCCESS remote: [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ remote: [INFO] Total time: 3:18.195s remote: [INFO] Finished at: Mon May 20 03:21:37 EDT 2013 remote: [INFO] Final Memory: 42M/185M remote: [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ remote: Running .openshift/action_hooks/build remote: Running .openshift/action_hooks/deploy remote: hot_deploy_added=false remote: MySQL already running remote: Found 127.12.712.712:8080 listening port remote: Done remote: Running .openshift/action_hooks/post_deploy To ssh://76758382475ef809976543@mygooglereader-enjoylife.rhcloud.com/~/git/feeds.git/ |
You can goto Your Own Google Reader, use the default user “admin” and password “admin” to login, change the password and create your own account.
Apply Goolge client ID and etc
Go to Google Code: API Console, create project, and click “API Access”, click “Create an OAuth 2.0 client ID…”. In the popup, input “Product name: mygooglereader”, “Home Page URL: http://mygooglereader-enjoylife.rhcloud.com”, click “Next” button, Then “Create client ID” button.
Then “Edit settings…”, in “Edit client settings” popup, “Authorized Redirect URIs” is “http://mygooglereader-enjoylife.rhcloud.com/google/import/callback”, “Authorized JavaScript Origins” is “http://mygooglereader-enjoylife.rhcloud.com”, click “Update” button. And found “Client ID” and “Client secret”.
Application settings in CommdFeed
Go to Your Own Google Reader, use “admin” to login. Then go to Settings page, set “Public URL” to “http://mygooglereader-enjoylife.rhcloud.com”, and also “Google client ID”, “Client secret”. Click “Save”.
Import your subscriptions from Google Reader
Go to Your Own Google Reader, use your own account, click the arrow button near the “Subscribe”, select “Import”. In “Import” popup, click “Google Reader”, then log in your google account, and wait about several minutes. All will be fine.
TODO
- Update CommaFeed from upstream.
- Backup mysql database.